March On Bank Of England Friday

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

MARCH ON BANK OF ENGLAND FRIDAY

Latest: BANK TUBE AT 5pm now sems to be meeting point
4 pm from Mansion House to Bank of England - organised by Trots - but wot the fuck comrades - it could be livened up! See Adamski on side comments. DOWN WITH CAPITALISM - THE HOUR IS AT HAND!




October 6, 2008

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March on the Bank of England

Friday 10th October 2008

4pm, Bank of England, Threadneedle Street (Nearest tube: Bank)
The world economy is in crisis and those that are going to suffer most from it are working people, pensioners, and students.

The government's proposed solution to the crisis - which as we all know they have created - has been to bail out the banks and the bankers by pouring billions of pounds into the financial system.

And for the past few decades we've been told that the free market is the only way forward. This is the free market that has taken over the council housing, privatised gas and electricity, privatised the transport network, and brought in tuition fees. We've been told that there's no alternative, and that there's no better way of organising society.

All of this has now been discredited with the nationalisation of the major banks and the consistent failure of the market to correct itself. The ideology essentially says privatise the profits, and nationalise the losses.

Left Alternative is part of a growing movement that is responding to the attacks by putting forward a set of demands in the form of the People Before Profit Charter. Join us on Friday to make it clear to the government and the banks that we will not pay for this crisis.

For more information call the National Office on 020 8983 9671.

[Brian Foley]

"March On Bank Of England" , Why ? Whats the point , it clearly has been shown that with the collapse of the US financial system that all England was simply an appendage of the US system . Instead of marching on Threadneedle Street it would be better to march on the puppet Parliament which is full of those mannequin servants of the wealthy and highlight what economic vandalism these wankers have done for their plutocratic masters .

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

Well said, Brian. I think these guys think the same way as you and may just follow your advice!


9 Comments

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  Adamski
  October 7, 2008 at 5:38 pm
  I don’t know if this is the official call-out, but this is an advert I have seen:
  “10th October Protest - no bail out for the bankers
  ————————————————� �—————————–
  Money for the City but not for public services? Fuck that!
  Why should the tax payer guarantee bankers bad debts? - if they go under their profits and assets should be seized!
  Friday Oct 10th 4pm onwards Threadneedle Street. Bank of England.
  bring the noise”
  
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  nick
  October 7, 2008 at 5:39 pm
  i’ll be coming along. Any nearby boozers for a pre match pint?
  
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  zero seven four two
  October 7, 2008 at 6:47 pm
  Good luck brothers sisters, let the street raw with anger, lets here the smashing of there banks, bring it back home to the greedy bastards and while you are at it give the trots a swift fist of class justice, time we made the middle class history bankers and trots alike, i was all ways of the thought
  RTS= RIOT THROUGH SUBURBIA
  (bringing it all back home)
  
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  MunchyBrain
  October 7, 2008 at 7:13 pm
  Sounds goood. I’ll be there.
  
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  Adamski
  October 7, 2008 at 8:19 pm
  Another email that seems to be doing the rounds, this one seems a little more apocalyptic
  ”COLLAPSE FASTER!”
  FRIDAY 10TH OCTOBER, 5PM, BANK TUBE
  –>THE BANK OF ENGLAND, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON.
  1989: The wall falls, capitalism triumphs.
  1999: Protesters stop the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle, but globalisation continues to deregulate everything and carve up the world for the global economy.
  October 2008: Folks, its all gone pear shaped!
  Recession has hit. America first, Ireland now, Britain next. Prices continue to rise, food, homes and energy begins to slip out of reach. Wages have stagnated for years, now we all face the chop. The government is getting ready for millions more unemployed over the next five years, and they’ll face the harshest forced-work programs since Victorian times – just to get the pittance of the dole. It is no longer cost effective to employ you. You are not buying anything anymore. The banks have fucked it up, they wont lend because the cash flow has dried up so now they crash. Northern Rock, Lehman Brothers, Bradford & Bingley.
  First priority of the politicains who claim to be in control of the market? Bail out our banker buddies! That’s $700 billion of US workers money, to be given to the speculators so they can start playing roulette with our lives again. The millions of us who didn’t actually cause this crisis are told to accept ‘wage restraint’. Down here everyone waits, and works, and worries. We can call for more state intervention, we can moan about how this particular crash is the fault of this particular policy by this particular party or this particular Plc. – or we can accept its not the players, it’s the game.
  Capitalism isn’t in crisis CAPITALISM IS CRISIS!
  Now is our time, if we are brave enough to seize it, to say that as long as capitalism continues, we can never be secure. But now, for once, they are insecure like us. We say let them suffer their own crimes, no bailouts for the bosses! So, we wont beg for ‘no repossessions’, we will join our neighbours and resist and the bailiffs won’t dare tread on our streets! We wont accept ‘wage restraint’, we will organise in workplaces and unions to win what we need! More than this, one day we will seize control of our own economy, so their system can do no more damage. But for now, we will take to the streets.
  On Friday 10th October, we call all anarchists, radicals and people who have their eyes on the ball to join us to pay a visit to the bank manager. We will take more than anger, we will take a clear threat, and one that cannot be soothed. The bankers are our enemies, the bosses are our enemies. Today we will suffer this crisis as we suffer their crimes, but we also see their weakness and in that we find hope. Bankers, bosses, politicians listen up: Your time is soon over, our time is now!”
  
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  Adamski
  October 7, 2008 at 9:06 pm
  Okay, this is the word on the street. Apparently (slight shades of Paris 1968) the demo was called at a mass meeting of SOAS students (proposed by SWP members), several London trade unions and trades councils are in on the action. The old invincible alliance of students and workers is ressurrected!
  Seems to have gained a bit of momentum with talk of a red ‘n’ black bloc & other shenanigans
  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410183.html
  Okay, let’s rock n roll . . .
  
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  Cj
  October 7, 2008 at 9:11 pm
  sounds good, wish i could come. but wouldnt an earlier start be better to make sure you run into the city boys and girls?
  
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  sam
  October 7, 2008 at 9:21 pm
  grab this opportunity by the bollocks.anarchism has a great platform here.fuck the super rich.feed off public feeling.bring back the sun style class war headlines.the public is a changing!
  
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  zero seven four two
  October 7, 2008 at 9:51 pm
  Adamski nice one and i have posted it all over the fucking place, idd love to be there and lets see what happens..
  

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[Thinking Man's Idiot]

[loki]

Just came across these two videos of the event.

Anticapitalista - Protest in the City

Bailout Protest at the Bank of England, 10 October

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

200 ANTI-CAPITALIST STUDENTS DO US PROUD
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2008/10...s-do-us-proud/

Just got back from the march on the Bank of England. About 200 students mostly with SWP placards but up for some action stormed the entrances to the Royal exchange luxury shops chanting ‘ The Rich..the rich…we’ve got a get rid of the rich’. Keeping mobile they charged at the Stock exchange, Bank Of England, and several merchant banks where cops just managed to keep them out. The city of london cops were badly caught off guard at first and repeatedly the students broke through police lines and resisted being penned in. It was a triumph of people who didnt know how to behave on demonstrations - who were naive, idealistic and passionate and bold and broke out of he usual SWP constraints. Racing round the city was exhlarating as the cops sent for dogs and horses and reinforcements with hands itching on their tazers. After an hour things calmed down. A few very old anarchists had trailed after the students and I salute the studeents for their boldness and passion. There were no anarchist flags in sight or any evidence of those who’d produced the Collapse Faster leaflet. The day belonged to the students……….from their fragile hands…….
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  Guttersnipe
  October 10, 2008 at 8:01 pm
  The SWP were not trying to constrain the march It’s time to move and the SWP have led the charge, so well done to them.
  It’s a call to action.
  
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  ray
  October 10, 2008 at 8:16 pm
  Some old anarchist trailed even further behind than most! But well done all.
  
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  johnathan rook
  October 10, 2008 at 11:27 pm
  “the usual SWP constraints.”
  Thanks I try to mediate everyday about the evils of the SWP mindset
  
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  Steve Brown
  October 11, 2008 at 4:03 am
  This is good news. A start. Let’s hope people build on this type of thing.